Robot apocalypse ..The war has started

globalds

This video is a turning point in the History of mankind .

The war has begun ..And the sad news I bring is that we ( humans ) started it with what looks like a hokey stick and a cardboard tube.

https://youtu.be/rVlhMGQgDkY

For those without the patience to watch ..skip to 1:30 for the violent action.

Generali

Our bearded hero is our first champion of the Resistance.

It is going to be interesting to see what happens. Personally, I am optimistic although that is probably a reflection of my temperament as much as anything else.

Our experience of the past is that people displaced by technology find other jobs in the same industry or elsewhere. Look at US agricultural employment and output for example:



If you'd been in a policy meeting in 1930 and said that employment in agriculture would drop by over 90% then people would have been wondering what no earth they were going to do. I'm yet to see demonstrations calling for sharecropping to be brought back by displaced farm workers.

CLAPTON

so it would seem that we won't have a shortage of 'labour' in 20 years time and could preserve this green and pleasant land for our children to enjoy and experience untold wealth too.
with any luck we may still be a liberal and democratic society and some will be able to afford a modest family home

antrobus

The Robot Apocalypse may be delayed.

Mercedes is switching from robots to people, because people are so much easier to program.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/26/mercedes-benz-robots-people-assembly-lines

lovinituk

Good to see the robot complying with Health & Safety and bending its knees when lifting.

chucknorris

Generali wrote: »

Our bearded hero is our first champion of the Resistance.

NO! He is a misguided fool, but luckily real a real resistance time travelling hero will travel back in time to the past, and kill his mother before he was born, so that he can't invent the damn thing. But that probably won't be the end of it, soon they will realise that you started the idea with your original zombie robots thread on MSE, and you will become the prime target.

Generali

Humans 1 - 0 Zombie Robots

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-25/why-mercedes-is-halting-robots-reign-on-the-production-line

Mercedes-Benz offers the S-Class sedan with a growing array of options such as carbon-fiber trim, heated and cooled cupholders and four types of caps for the tire valves, and the carmaker’s robots can’t keep up.

With customization key to wooing modern consumers, the flexibility and dexterity of human workers is reclaiming space on Mercedes’s assembly lines. That bucks a trend that has given machines the upper hand over manpower since legendary U.S. railroad worker John Henry died trying to best a motorized hammer more than a century ago

kabayiri

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35681474

The direction seems clear.

Predictions above of 900K jobs lost in retail over the next decade.

This may be a good thing. I'm not sure we can afford lots of low paying shop assistant type jobs which need subsidising.

antrobus

Generali wrote: »

Humans 1 - 0 Zombie Robots

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-25/why-mercedes-is-halting-robots-reign-on-the-production-line

Yup. As I said, humans are so much easier to program. Anyone can do it; you don't need to hire some techie to do it.

kabayiri wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35681474

The direction seems clear.

Predictions above of 900K jobs lost in retail over the next decade.

This may be a good thing. I'm not sure we can afford lots of low paying shop assistant type jobs which need subsidising.

But that ain't down to robots. The complaint is that it will be down to the NLW and the apprenticeship levy.

Generali

kabayiri wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35681474

The direction seems clear.

Predictions above of 900K jobs lost in retail over the next decade.

This may be a good thing. I'm not sure we can afford lots of low paying shop assistant type jobs which need subsidising.

Hmm.

The British Retail Consortium reckons that something that will cost retailers more money will cost a gazillion jobs. Why am I not surprised?

CLAPTON

Generali wrote: »

Hmm.

The British Retail Consortium reckons that something that will cost retailers more money will cost a gazillion jobs. Why am I not surprised?

maybe, because some economists take the view that an increase in tax on a product, tends to reduce the demand?